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DMP Edubook: Another shot at the mythical $100 netbook

Remember when we used to call the OLPC XO Laptop the $100 laptop? OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte overpromised and underdelivered when it came to price and the XO now costs closer to $200. That’s still pretty impressive, all things considered, and the XO really did launch the netbook revolution. But the price never dropped to the promised $100 level, and…

October 7th, 2009, 8:44 am by Brad Linder | 7 Comments

WattOS Linux on the Nohrtec Gecko Edubook – Video

The folks behind the Nohrtec Gecko Edubook are looking to make their AA-battery powered netbook available for $200 soon. The company’s unique netbook features a 1GHz Xcore86 CPU, which is x86-compatible and capable of running Windows XP or Linux. This week, the Nohrtec team posted a video on YouTube showing the Edubook running WattOS, a light weight Linux distribution based…

September 15th, 2009, 2:02 pm by Brad Linder | 5 Comments